Krystyna Poray Goddu is a writer, editor and educator who has been dividing her time between Cumberland and New York City, where she raised her two children, since 2002. With her children embarked on careers of their own, she has now happily become more involved in the Cumberland arts community. Author of numerous books, including A Girl Called Vincent: The Life of Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay for young people, she has also published her work in American Girl magazine, The New York Times Book Review and Riverbank Review of Books for Young Readers, and is a regular reviewer of children’s books and writer for Publishers Weekly. She was cofounder of Cumberland-based Reverie Publishing Company, which published books on dolls and other toys. She has also worked in school libraries and taught writing to middle-school students in independent schools in New York City, as well as to adults through ACM’s Continuing Education department. She holds a degree in comparative literature from Brown University.